7 Ups & 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 31)

5. Living Up To His Twitter Handle

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On one hand, Baron Corbin should have moved on from his first big feud by now, having beaten Dolph Ziggler twice now. On the other hand, we wouldnt have gotten a nice wrinkle from Ziggler on Monday.

Corbin won their no-DQ match at Extreme Rules by hitting a low blow and then finishing with an End of Days. In response, Dolph challenged Baron to a technical wrestling match on Raw. Ziggler, the winningest wrestler at Kent State, came out and donned headgear and mouthguard before delivering a deliberate low blow of his own, drawing a DQ and relishing it. The smirk on Dolphs face said plenty about the veteran getting one up (or back, depending on your point of view) against the rookie.

In a vacuum, this was a pretty good moment. However, where do we go from here? Is Corbin going to sink even lower to get the upper hand? Or is Dolph getting a little dark to win this feud? Neither really accomplishes the goal of making Corbin a force in WWE, so this gets decent marks on its own, but not necessarily as part of the overall story.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.